Posts Tagged NASA’s budget

NASA Uncertainty remains the one certainty for NASA’s budgets By Jeff Foust on 2013 March 8 at 7:04 am ET One week ago today, budget sequestration formally went into effect, cutting NASA’s budget by five percent from its 2012 levels. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

CONGRESS, NASA House full-year continuing resolution offers something for SLS and Commercial Crew supporters By Jeff Foust on 2013 March 4 at 8:38 pm ET The deadline for sequestration has come and gone, but another deadline is looming: the continuing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

CONGRESS, NASA, WHITE HOUSE As sequestration goes into effect, revisiting its effects on NASA By Jeff Foust on 2013 March 2 at 11:14 am ET Friday evening, President Obama signed an order officially enacting the across-the-board budget cuts known as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden addresses the media at SpaceX’s main hangar in Cape Canaveral, FL. The sequester will affect both NASA and SpaceX. Credit: NASA. How Will Sequestration Affect NASA? by NANCY ATKINSON on MARCH 1, 2013 It seems […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

MSL-Derived Mars Sample Caching Concept Rover An artist’s concept of an MSL-derived caching rover that uses solar panels instead of an RTG for its power source. This is similar to what was proposed on Dec 4th, 2012 by NASA as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

“View from the International Space Station of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as the station’s robotic arm moves Dragon into place for attachment to the station. May 25, 2012.” Caption courtesy of SpaceX. Photo: NASA Commentary invited by editors of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…